LCF Charter users could see changes

Under proposed subscriber-base swap, residents who receive cable services from Charter could be switched to Comcast.

Charter Communications customers in La Cañada Flintridge could soon be getting their TV cable and Internet services from Comcast Corp. under a proposed subscriber-base swap announced Monday.

In an effort to get approval from the Federal Communications Commission to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion, Comcast, the country's largest cable provider, has agreed to trim 3.9 million customers once the transaction has been completed, including 1.4 million existing Time Warner customers in the Midwest that would go to Charter.

Then, 1.6 million subscribers would be swapped between the two providers, giving Charter some additional Midwest patrons, while Comcast's new clientele would include 280,000 customers in Southern California, said Charter spokesman Alex Dudley.